Gardar Eide Einarsson – Pardon Me
| Author | |
|---|---|
| Publisher | At Last Books |
| ISBN | 9788785336071 |
| Idea Code | 251047 |
Pardon Me examines the strange political theatre of the annual U.S. presidential turkey pardoning ceremony.Long staged as light entertainment, this ritual masks a far darker logic: a grotesque parody of sovereign power and its ability to decide who may live and who may die. Drawing on thinkers such as Giorgio Agamben, Alenka Zupančič, Carl Schmitt, Freud, and Foucault, the book reveals how the turkey pardon dramatizes the state’s desire to define the boundaries of humanity itself. In this carnivalesque reversal, the turkey is lifted from “bare life” into the symbolic embrace of the law, while millions of others are condemned without ceremony. The accumulation of images creates a quiet counterpoint to the absurd ritual they emerge from. Pardon Me exposes the uneasy laughter that surrounds state power when it masks its violence behind spectacle. Through a minimal, almost documentary presentation, the book reflects on decision, authority, mercy, and the unsettling theatre of the modern sovereign who jokes about his own power as he exercises it.
| 80 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 20 cm, hb, English |
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